Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Big Man? Ex-Airforce Chief, Amosu, Refuses To Return Money To EFCC

There were indications on Tuesday that the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission’s interrogation of a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal
Adesola Amosu (retd.), had reached a dead end.

It was learnt that the commission had asked Amosu and others, who are
still being detained over the $2.1bn arms deal, to refund the money or
contract sums traced to them. But some are proving stubborn.

Findings showed that the former Chief of Air Staff was being
interrogated in connection with 10 contracts awarded by the Nigeria Air
Force between 2014 and 2015, totalling $930.5m.

It was gathered that the EFCC’s operatives met a brick wall when the
former NAF chief refused to make any commitment to return any money or
contract sums, which had been allegedly traced to him.

A source told Punch that as part of moves to recover the funds, the
commission was making the signing of an undertaking to refund money as a
precondition for granting the suspects administrative bail.

The source said, “As part of efforts to recover funds looted from the
NSA office, suspects are being asked to write an undertaking that they
will return the money before granting them administrative bail.

“Among others, Amosu is being quizzed over $930m contracts by the Air
Force, but the commission had not made the progress it desires because
he has not signed any undertaking to return any money. He has not
provided the information the commission is looking for.”